Improvement in water-elevators



SAMUEL F. ATWOOD, OF LEAVENWORTH CITY, KANSAS.

IMPROVEM ENT IN WATERELEVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,916, dated July 30, 1872.

Specification describing a Machine for Elevating Water, invented bySA'MUEL F. AT WOOD, of Leavenworth City, in the county of Leavenworth and State of Kansas.

My machine is an arrangement for elevating water in Vbuckets which are alternately raisedand lowered. by'turning the crank in opposite directions. v

Figure l is a front elevation of my machine with cap of `well-curb tipped up. Fig. 2 shows the lever H with' its arms I and K. Fig. 3 shows face of wheel or flange B. Fig. 4. is front elevation. of side and center wheels, showing braces D D D D D D. Fig. 5 shows horizontal arm of lever H.

A is the cap of well-curb, with journals thereon for the bearings of the shaft M, which is square. BB B are three wheels or ilanges, which may be made of wood or metal, of any convenient diameter, thickness, or pattern.

` These wheels may be fastened to drums or cylinders of Wood or metal, through the center of which the shaft may be passed. C O C C are oval beads or projections on therims of the wheels or iianges, by which the'chain is thrown oft' from the side of the flange. These beads or projections are formed on the side wheels on the inside, and on the center wheel on both sides. D DD D D D are braces oni said wheels or langes--on` the side wheels on the inside, on the center wheels on both sides. These braces Vmay be of any required height, length, or thickness, are at. right angles to` each other7 and rest on the four faces of the'` shaft to support and strengthen the wheel or ian ge. Through the wheels or ianges B B B holes are made atany desirable, though equal, distances from their centers, through which bolts (eight in number or more) N N N N-N N are passed and secured, forming a drum or cylinder, on which the chains are attached and wound and unwound by turning the crank. H is alever, with the arms J and K. Arm K has a roller attachment and is used to push forward the bucket furthest removed from the hand. This lever may be dispensed with and the buckets emptied from both sides into troughs sloping to the center of curb. G is the lever-ratchet fastened on the top of the cap of the well-curb. 0n the outside of the curb, on the crank-end of shaft, are attached two ratchet-wheels, F F, with teeth exposed in opposite directions, and engaged on either side by ratchets E E,which maybe thrown on or off, as may be required, to stop the rvo- Y lution of the cylinder in either direction.

I claim as my invention- The combination of `the three wheels or iianges BB B and the beads or projections (on their rims) C G C (l, secured to a wooden or metal cylinder or drum, or with the braces DDDDDD andboltsNNNNNN, with ratchet-wheels F F and ratchets E E, and with the lever H, with its arms J K and its ratchet gr, substantially as and for the purposes set orth.

SAMUEL F. ATWOOD.

Witnesses:

EDWARD RUssELL, FREDERICK M. SPALDING. 

